yeah.. that's kind of why I submitted this. I figured you knew about clickhole.. with me it just goes past the point of funny and straight to insensitivity. The Onion's usually pretty good about walking that line. I remember after 9/11 they just took two weeks off. Then they came back with an article about the pilots surprised that they were in hell. That was the perfect time to laugh. There's just nothing funny about babies and dogs left in cars.

It's a direct parody of a viral video from a couple weeks ago. A man locked himself in a hot car and recorded a video describing his discomfort and reminding us why it's cruel to do this to dogs.

The title of the video was something like "man locks himself in hot car and what he discovers is amazing!"

Click hole isn't making fun of heat strike victims, it's making fun if that internet video.

Some SA forums goon died from being in a locked car. He took a bunch of fentanyl, passed out in his own driveway, and it only took about an hour for him to cook to death.

This all makes more sense and thanks for teaching me how to take a joke.

Nah, he does, it's just he doesn't find this sort of thing funny, unlike 9/11

*Nah, he doesn't

(facebook allowing edits was the absolute worst thing to happen to my post legibility here.)

It's not a question of funny or not. It's the question of the right time. The Onion was basically our college newspaper so when it was gone, the world seemed like a worse place. It helps that Madison's capitol building looks exactly like the Congress building so the news was basically flooded with speculations that another plane would hit in Madison. I wouldn't have an older brother anymore if it wasn't for a train being late that morning.

I guess you had to be there but here's an article

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/remembering-onion-9-11-iss ue-everyone-thought-last-162024809.html

The difference is a dead baby joke (and trust me I've heard them all) doesn't make someone feel slightly more at ease if their friend's child or dog has died in a car on a normal hot august day.

Hey Zest, what do you get when you kick a dead baby down the stairs?

"The difference is a dead baby joke (and trust me I've heard them all) doesn't make someone feel slightly more at ease if their friend's child or dog has died in a car on a normal hot august day."

Can you comfortably say that's the truth for all people? Or do you just get off on assuming that's a universal truth because it makes it easier to shame people, which is your actual way of coping with tragedy?

Is this the first summer babies and dogs have died in hot cars?

No, but this summer we as a society have decided that its no good.

Look. I wasn't trying to create any divisions about the appropriateness of dead baby jokes when I submitted this. I also wasn't trying to "shame" anybody by thinking their sense of humor was wrong, or worse, make a "not the onion" joke in the description and "trick" them. This just isn't funny to me. It wouldn't be funny on John Oliver or the Daily Show either.

@evilhomer it comes back to life

I was thinking the same thing!